The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-04-01
NEWS AND OTHER NOTINGS.

ISOLATION will meet In CleaIfiSfd this year,
JuIy5-7.
"A terrible storm OF bail and wind visited
Ackworth, Ca, on Monday evening. Two
dwellings we're demolished
Benjamin ShuTtJeff, of Chicago, recently
sold piece of land in that city for SIX, 600,
which he bought in 1859 for $500.
The Berks county court last week grant
ed 200 licenses 10 sell liquor in Keadinss and
abolt $50 in other parts of the county.
Two skeletons ~Oman's and ch5la's
were found ia Philadelphia IN a conceslsd
receptacle in a house which was being torn
down.
During recent snow blockade OF the
railroads near Fort Benton, Montana, fiouF
sold in that city at $40 sack, coal at $50 a
ton, and wood at $50 per cosd.
While firing at target with a Winches-
ter Fit1e, at Cincinnati, yesterday, Lizzie
Miller accidently shot and fatally injured
her brother Cornelius, aged L.
Among the rich of Japan it takes three
weeks to perform a marriage ceremony. and
the would-be groom is kept under guard for
fear he will get discouI aged and back out.
Edward Steihinger, of Egypt, Lehleh
county, aged go years, committed suicide
Saturday by hanging. He bad been made
melancholy by losses through Endorsements
A fight took place between shepherds
and cowboys, near Grants station, Arizona
recently, in which one herder was killed, one
mortally wounded. and three others slightly
hurt
The contract for building the new jail
at Indiana, Pa, has been awarded 10 John
5. Hastings, of that piece, the contract price
beins $50. 793, 73, which also includes some
repairs to the court house.
There is a young woman In Dakota who
is successfully woI king a $50 acre farm, and
she declares that she could work one twice
as large if the men who want TO marry her
would stop bothering her.
Joshua Greenland, a citizen Of Hunt
lngdon, died on Sunday. Although seventy
nine years Of age, grief for the death OF bis
daughteI-Mrs. j. Simpson Africa-which
occurred last November, fastened his death.
j. w. johnson & Miller. She byville, ILL.,.
reproved his son jerome for some misde.
meanor, whereupon the latter drew a revol-
wound. The young man was arrested and
locked up.
The fremont hotel, at Wabash Ind,
was burned completely down on Saturday
morning. There were a number of narrow
escapes by the inmates. all egress from the
second and third stories being cut off except
by ladders
The large planning mill owned and oper-
sted by Gamble, White & Co., one nile be
low Renova, Clinton county, together with
large quantity OF worked lumber. was
burned on last Sunday morning. The loss
will reach so, 900.
The carpenters of Chicago are preparing
to enforce their demand for bours per day,
and 35 cents per hour. on and after April 4.
1t is thought that within a week a consolida-
tion of al the building trades, with that end
in view, will be effected.
"A New York dealer in seeds says his
firm has at the present time locked up in the
vaults of the Mercantile Deposit Company
400 pounds Of SNOWFALL cauliflower seeds
worth $50 pound. This seed is valuable
because 1t is so very hard to get.
W y. Bartlett, of Clinton, n. Y, presi-
dent of TIE Rome and Clinton railroad ever
since It's organization, and VINO occupied
other important official positions, committed
suicide by hanging, on last Tuesday. He
Las suffered from softening Of the brain.
"A Senator in the New Jersey Legisa-
ture in opposing marriage license bill for
States, said the other day in debate that if
the bill passed Camden clergymen would
lose SO, 900 year, as they had united 2, 700
lnr,,
-Ex Lieutenant Governor Reynolds. of
Missouri, fell down an elevator shaft at the
custom house at st. Louis, on Wednesday,
and was instantly killed. Although it was
at first supposed TO be accidental, letter
found on mis- person shows it to have been
premedtated.
Among the bills passed second reading
IN the Senate, on Tuesday, was that allowing
railroad companies which have expended
$500, 900 In the construction of lines, to aban-
don sections and complete others, supposed
to have reference to the South Pennsylvania
Railroad company.
In the Presidents mail on Wednesday
at Washington. was a letter postmarked
Brooklyn, n. Y, containing $500 gold
certificate and note saying THE money
is for Custom House duty" 1t was sent to
the Treasury Department and placed to the
credit of conscience.
Seven years ago Henry Whitaker, of
Syracuse. Y. Y, was divorced from bis wife,
the mother Of FIVE children. He then mar
ried widow, who had seven children by
him. She died, and Whitaker entered into
correspondence with his first wife, who was
In England, effected reconciliation,
brought Der over here. and married her
again.
BY agreement OF counsel for the Com
monwealth and the prisoner the Jury in the
case of Frank Kerner, the religious mono
maniac on trial at Reading the latter p rt OF
last week for the brutal murder of his wife,
returned a verdict Saturday. of murder in
the second degree. Sentence was deferred.
/ The maximum penalty is twelve years i'm
prisonnent.
AT the close OF g prayer meeting IN one
Of TrOy's churches recently lady who bad
reached the vestibuIe on her way out, missed
one OF her rubber overshOes. She went back
and searched forit. SeveraIfrIends assisted.
The ovsrshoe could not be found. As the
/ search was about to he abandoned the lady
made the discovery that she had put both
rubbers on one foot, one over the other.
The horses in the mountain camps of
CAlifornia are il winyer provided with snow
shoes. The Nevada City Transcript thus
describes these shoes ITO make one Of the
shoes you first take piece Of rubber betting
about II inches In diameter Fasten to one
side OF 1t a steel plate so perforated tbas the